Although people like those up numbers, they love the ballads. They are songs that really have emotion in them.
By the time I'm ready to go out there, I have nothing else to concentrate on-the album's finished, the videos are done.
Embrace yourself, enjoy yourself, and live each day to the fullest.
Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.
For the first time, I had a lot to do with writing the songs. I definitely want to keep writing because the material becomes even more personal.
Honesty and trust are big factors for me. Someone has to have God as the center of his life to be a mate for me.
I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.
I believe in myself and carry on.
I didn't want to become hard and angry. I knew I needed help and I couldn't help myself.
I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
I don't really feel like I've achieved a lot. I feel I have a long way to go.
I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway shows.
I don't want to go out with guys who aren't interested in the real person, guys who just want to go out with you because you're a public personality.
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.
I feel like this is my best work since the days of Sweet Sensation - only it's even better because I've matured so much since then.
I had a problem, growing up in the business the way I grew up. There was a lot of anger inside of me due to things that had happened in the business.
I had failed at marriage for the second time, and marriage is very important to me.
I love the people and the British accent.
I love theater. I love doing white theater, which is the Great White Way, and I love to do urban stories too, because I think there's a market for us.
I really do think that as black women, we sometimes have to allow our black men to be black men.
I really wanted this record to fit my personality, to reflect me and what I'm all about. I think that this may be the first record that really does that.
I still want to be able to sell millions of albums-that hasn't happened yet, and definitely not on a worldwide scale.
I think that it's inspiring that people keep going when they have so much to contend with.
I tried to get on a major label, but they weren't interested. They all told me I'd seen my best days.
I want a career in records that's even bigger than it is now.
I wanted to enjoy my life, and when I decided to get back into the music industry, I recorded this album.
I wanted to sing about what my core audience is used to hearing me sing about, which is love and relationships.
I was tired of doing the same old thing; it got redundant.
I wasn't planning to go back into the studio.
I went out on the road last year for about three months, which was the first time in about three years.
I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.
I'm about to sing the song for the future.
I'm not going to sing and dance all the time. I'm not going to look glamorous all the time, not in the morning when I get up.
I'm really getting to know what Stephanie wants to do. Before, I was just a puppet entertainer. Things were done for me and around me. Now I control everything.
I'm still young and I have myself, so I don't really worry.
I've been in therapy for two to three years. You really learn about yourself. It helps you realize why people act the way they do.
I've gone back to theater several times during the course of my career. I've written an autobiographical show called Born for This that I plan to take to Broadway.
I've never been a money kind of person.
I've undergone a spiritual renewal from 1990 to 1992. It has been very educational to me in learning myself, through my music and through therapy.
In the past, I've recorded songs that were what other people suggested, and I don't think anyone knows me better than me!
It's been 13 years since my last album. Wherever I went, my fans would ask when I was going to do a new album. So I did it for my fans. They helped me to go into the studio faster.
It's the best thing ever-I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.
Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.
Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.
My boyfriends are guys I've gotten to know over a long period of time. Same thing with friends: it's hard being in this business to make a lot of new friends.
My life has gone through a lot of changes, some good, some bad. I learned something from all the experiences that has made me the person I am today.
My new album is all about getting to basics, back to square one, to what people want to hear from me.
My relationships never made it to two years. I knew it was me. You can't blame it on another person. That's where a lot of women go wrong, carrying over from a bad relationship to a new relationship.
People are what and who they are. I definitely know what kind of man I need.
People listen to what I say and watch what I do and always take it to the extreme. I guess they don't realize that we're normal people underneath.
Sometimes things that happened in the past, in your childhood, are suppressed and subconsciously come out in your behavior.
The lowest point for me was when Home didn't sell as well as I thought it would. The hardest thing is for an artist to go into a studio and do an album and it not be supported like you think it should.
The Stephanie Mills of the '90s is in control of her own feelings, her own life, her own career.
Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.
There comes a time when you take a break and do other things. I continued to do theater and television, and I have a son.
This album is vintage Stephanie Mills. It's just an updated version of me.
This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.
Those biographers allow me to see what women have been through in this business, to see beneath the surface.
We really hadn't gone anywhere. We just weren't in the spotlight.
What was important to me while I was recording this album was that I sang mature lyrics. I couldn't sing about beepers or cars.
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